Policy Work

• Policy Focus: Louisiana's Promising "Let Teachers Teach" InitiativeBy Neeraja DeshpandeIndependent Women, March 2026
• The Dating Decade: Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Swiping RightBy Hadley Heath Manning, with Carrie Sheffield and Neeraja DeshpandeIndependent Women, February 2026
• Policy Focus: Artificial Intelligence and EducationBy Neeraja DeshpandeIndependent Women, December 2025
• Policy Focus: Abolish the Curriculum MonopolyBy Neeraja DeshpandeIndependent Women, August 2025
• Identity Crisis – The Disjointed Reality in New Mexico: New Mexico Gender Policies Clash with Public OpinionBy Neeraja Deshpande and Inez Stepman, with a foreword by Prisha MosleyIndependent Women, June 2025
• Give Teachers a Break: Cutting Red Tape to Unleash the Potential of America's Great TeachersBy Neeraja Deshpande, with a foreword by Beanie GeogheganIndependent Women, May 2025
• Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Stopping the Dangerous Policies Putting Men in Women's PrisonsBy May Mailman and Inez Stepman, with a foreward by Amie Ichikawa, and contributors Beth Parlato, Charlotte Whelan, Neeraja Deshpande, and Britton MillerIndependent Women, December 2024